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The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

A CONCERT UNDER mIFFICULTIES.

The famous Polish violinst M. Henri Wieniayski,
when " starring " at St. Petersburg, was ordered to
play before the Czar Alexander 11. In due time
he appeared at the Winter Palace, was nhown into a
State department where the Emperor made his ap-
pearance, accompanied by a large Newfoundland dog.
When the artist began his performance, the dog, who
was lying at his master's feet, got up and slowly
approached Wieniayski, who began to feel somewhat
uncomfortable, fearing that the animal, according to
the manner of his kind, might begin to ar;company
his play by a howl. Instead, of this, however, the
dog oame close up to bun and put his two fore paws
on the artist's knees. It is easy to understand that
such a situation was anything but advantageous to
the musical performance. Nevertheless Wieniayski
continued his concert, while the dog, not satisfied
with his demonstrations, came closer and closer, follow-
ing with his bead every movement of the arm. At
the thought that his art would be for ever ended if
the gigantic mouth should open to bito his right hand
off, the violinist trembled inwardly with fear, but
dared not discontinue his play. At last, the Emperor,
who had evidently enjoyed the situation, inquired.
"Wieniayski, does the dog incommode you at all?"
"Your majesty," replied the artist, " I fear I incom-
mode the dog." Alexander 11. was much amused by
the answer, and the dog was called back.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

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SATURDAY, APRIL 104 1886.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

THE SUCCESSOR OF ROBINSON
CRIIBOE,

It is generally believed that Daniel De Foe took the
adventures of Alexander Selkirk for the canvas of his
Robinson Crusoe. The island on which Selkirk lived
for five years belongs to Chili, and has remained un-
inhabited until 1872, when a Swiss, named Rodt,
rented it from the Cbilian Government, and estab-
lished on it an agricultural colony, which is now in a
flourishing condition. 11. Roth, who is about forty
years old, entered the Austrian army in 1864, fought
against Prussia in 1866, was at t'aris during the siege
of 1870, and fought as one of the Amis de la France
at Champigny. At present he is the quasi-Sovereign
of Robinson's island (Juan Fernandez), under the
suzerainty of Chili, which, however, has not yet been
invoked. He exercises all the government, judicial,
and administrative functions, and things are said to
thrive under this one man's regime better than in any
country in the world.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

THE EASTERN QUESTION,

A Constantinople correspondent telegraphing on Sun-
day said that the conference of ambassadors would re-
assemble on Monday for the purpose of ratifying the
Turko-Bulgarian Convention as amended. Prince
Alexander, however, "still refuses to agree to the
amendment, in spite of the efforts of the Porte and
the Powers to induce him to do so. The attitude of
Greece continues to cause anxiety, and the Porte has
instructed the Turkish commander to assume the
offensive at the first sign of hostility on the part of
Greece." M. Ristics has failed to form a Ministry,
and M. Garashanine, in concert with M. Majatovich, is
now engaged in reconstructing his Cabinet.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

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A HITCH NEEDED ENQUIRY.

For a long time past says the Daily Chronicle com-
plaints have arisen in and out of the military service
of the Crown about the working of the Ordnance De-
partment of the War Office; and imputations of
maladministration have been frequent. The Parlia-
mentary chiefs of the War Office have had frequently
to answer questions directed at this or that section of
the department, and an uneasy impression that there
is not a sufficient check, either upon the expenditure
or the methods and principles of manufacture, for
which the Parliamentary chiefs are of course
held responsible, has arisen in the mind
of the public. It seems this impression
has been at length communicated to those
whose responsibility has hitherto been borne rather
lightly, and we have reason to believe that the
Government has now decided on instituting a very
exhaustive inquiry into the whole of the questions,
whether military or manufacturing, which come in
any way within the purview of the Ordnance Depart-
ment. The precise form of the inquiry has not yet
been determined, but it is at least settled that it shall
be conducted by men of business and men of science.
Probably not until after Easter will the official
announcement be made, but no time will be lost in
defining the scope of the inquiry, which is expected to
result in vastly increased efficiency and a greatly
diminished outlay upon the material of war.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

A NEW VOLUNTEER SERVICE.

The Secretary of State for War has forwarded to
Colonel Hughes, M.P., his approval of a volunteer
bearer company at Woolwich' as proposed at a public
meeting, of which Colonel Hughes was chairman, and
the Duke of Cambridge has at the same time directed
the general officer commanding the district to take
the necessary steps for enrolling the officers and men.
They were therefore sworn in in the court-martial
room at the Royal Artillery Barracks, about 80 out of
the required 100 answering to their names. Tha corps
is the first established on the principle laid down by
Sir Thomas Crawford, Director-General of the
Medical Staff, being a lay company as distinct from
corps of medical students. It is also enrolled on a
plan different from the volunteer organization at
large, being directly subordinate to the military and
medical authorities of the district, corresponding
through the ptincipal medical officer on all matters of
discipline requiring reference to higher authority, and
to the Director-General, as is the case in the divisions
of the Medical Staff Corps, on all other matters. Dr.
F. L. Stephenson, Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, has
been appointed Surgeon-Commandant and his name
submitted to the Queen, with effect from April 1.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

TUNNELLING FOR A CORPSE.

A very remarluble piece of e.3gineering came to an
end at Niagara Palls a short time ago. It was the
tunnelling of the ice mountain at the foot of the
American fall, undertaken by Superintendent Welch
of the State Park and his assistants in order to re-
cover the body of L. G. De Witt, of New York, who
fell from the ice mountain on February 28. De Witt
bad gone to within 10 or 20 feet of the edge, passing
over a large crevice, which should have been taken as
a warning, when the ice broke, letting him fall about
40 feet into a bed of slush and broken ice. Shortly
afterwards a change took place in the ice, and the
body of the man could be seen from the top of the
bank. It was estimated that the body lay about 40
feet from the top of the mountain, and with this
bearing the work began. The men started in on the
elope of the ice mountain back about 60 feet from the
face of the ice cliff. They cut a tunnel four feet wide
and five feet high. When they had advanced into
the tunnel a few feet they would lower the floor
of the tunnel about a foot, thus tunnelling
down by easy stages. The men worked in gangs of
two, each gang throwing back the pickings of the gang
ahead. The work went on until an opening was
struck, and the cloud of spray which rushed in seemed
to indicate that the work was nearly at an end. Itv.

had grown extremely hazardous. The men were prac-
tically tunnelling through a great mass of ice which
was separated from the main mountain by wide
fissures, and which might detach itself and precipitate
the men into the river below at any moment. When
the face of the ice mountain towards the fall was
finally opened the foremost men found the body on a
little ledge of ié about aloot below them. The body
was drawn into the tunnel and to the bank above. A
piece of the skull, which had been crushed by the ice,
and a portion of the man's brains still lie plainly
visible on the ledge from which the eutpse was taker
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COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES BILL.

The Compensation for Damages Bill passed through
committee, as did also the Army (Annual) Bill.
Lord Beauchamp gave notice that, on the motion for
the second reading of the bill for legalizing marriage
with the deceased wife's sister, the Duke of Argyll
would move the rejection of the bill.
Their lordships rose at tefi minutes past six o'clock.

The HOUSE OF Common had the first morning
sitting of the session on Tuesday, for the purpose of
forwarding

THE CROFTERS BILL.

The Committee resumed at Clause 12, but when the
hour for adjournment arrived Clause 13 had not been
disposed of. The chief controversy which arose in the
comae of the morning was over an addition, moved by
Mr. A. J. Balfour, to Clause 12, which prescribt s the
conditions on which crofters' holdings shall be enlarod.
Mr. Balfour proposed that no order shall be made
under the section if the landlord or landlords shall
offer to sell the lands affecte3, but the Lord Advocate
opposed this on the ground that it would nullify and
stultify the bill; and Mr. Trevelyan, pointing out
that such a provision would be useless without the assist-
ance of the Treasury, assured the Committee that there
was not the least chance of the Government making
any such advances. After some discussion the amend-
ment was negatived on a division. In the same clause
an amendment, suggested by Dr. Macdonald, was in-
serted by the Lord Advocate, giving the Land Commis-
sioners power to draw up a scheme for regulating the
use of seaweed, &c. An amendment moved in Clause
13 by Mr. M'Culloch perm;tting crofters' holdings to
be enlarged even though the neighbouring crofts be
held by a different landlord, was negatived by a large
majority, and the Committee, when it adjourned until
Friday was engaged on a proposal by Mr. Chaplin to
omit the power to enlarge holdings at the expense of
deer forests, &c.

THE LATE MR. FORSTER.
At the close of the sitting Mr. Gladstone took the
opportunity to give expression to the regret felt at the
loss of Mr. Forster, a man who, he said, deserved to be
remembered by his public acts in the passage of the
Education Acts and Ballot Act, and by his thoroughly
genuine and independent personal character. Although
his former colleagues had had occasion to differ from
him, nothing had ever occurred to throw doubt on his
high character and the loftiness of the aims which
governei his public life; and the best wish he could
have tor the countly was that it should long continue
to produce such men and that they should continue to
be returned to the douse of Commons.
Sir M. Hicks. Beach bore testimony to the general
feeling on his side that the House had lost in Mr.
Forster a man of high courage, of great ability, and
sincere devotion to the interests of the country.
At the evening sitting the House was counted out
before any business was done.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

COMFORTABLE STABLES.

Some farmers' " horsemen " take great pride in
their animals, and in many country stables the
animals are well cared for. In the majority, how-
ever, this is not the case, and many first-class cattle
have to pass the night in most uncomfortable quarters.
It is, indeed, surprising that the health of horses is so
good, considering the wretched places in which they
have to sojourn. Many horses live in quarters where
drainage is unknown, and where the manure, liquid
and solid, is left in a heap, to the discomfort of the
horses and the probable_ permanent injury of their
feet. Then, again, the majority of stables are badly
lighted, and as for ventilation, there is none. Horses,
like flowers, require light in the stable, and where
it is not given the animals will be found shy and
frightened at the slightest obstruction. The stables
should be cleaned daily, and all manure removed.
The floors should be frequently flushed with clean
water, the drains put in working order, and
ventilation be properly regulated. Fresh air
frequently proceeds from unintentional ventilators,
which came draughts, and induce rheumatism, in-
fluenza, and stiff knees ; while the dirt in the stables
will have a bad effect on the horses' heels. Comfort-
able quarters for horses is an essential item in success-
ful horsekeeping ; and surely it would amply repay
the trouble to possess a healthy stud by strict atten-
tion to the first principles of farm economy. If farm
animals are to be preserved in health they must have
clean quarters, and the ventilation should net proceed
from between the chinks in the floor, holes in the
wall, interstices in the door, from cracks in the roof,
or on account of displaced slates or rotten thatch.
The place should be thoroughly washed and disin-
fected at least once a week, and the animals should
have a clean, dry bed every day. Given good lodg-
ings, clean bedding, fresh air, and good food, horses
will reciprocate the attention, and perform a good
day's work in saddle or in the plough.—Land and
Water.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

ROYAL JOURNALS.

The Queen's Journal has been admirably trans-
lated into Gejurati by a Parsee lady, Miss Putlibai
Dhunjeebhoy Waida, and is most popular among the
native chiefs and general public in the Bombay
Presidency. With the British Sovereign's journal
may be contrasted the Diary of an Indian Prince
which has just appeared, the young Thakore Saheb of
Gondal having published his impre,sio-n of a visit to
England in 1863. The native ruler's style is as
simple as that of the Queen-Empress, and his views
of British habits and customs are keen and often
amusing. He noted especially that "business is
stamped on every English face, and every one is
doing his own work. Few Europeans like to eat the
bread of idleness. They are more worldly and politi-
cal, the undoes more retired and religious. Perse-
verance, enterprise, energy, and industry are the car-
dinal features of Englishmen." The Thakore was aston-
ished at the size of London, but preferred the country, 115
" every couple of hours his face was covered with a
new coating of soot." English hospitality delighted
him, and he thoroughly enjoyed British sports,
especially rowing, although "in India it would be
thought derogatory for a chief." Cricket, he declares,
is only a new edition of the ancient Indian stick and
ball game in which Krishna and his playmates
delighted, and he compares European to native
music to the infinite disparagement of the fcrmer,
which, "like a pen and ink sketch, exhibits only broad
outlines, while a native Rig is like a complete
picture." Evidently the Thakore was shocked by the
free and easy ways of University undergraduates as a
contrast to the respect shown to their instructors by
Indian students, but he greatly enjoyed his visit to
Oxford, and speaks in the highest terms of all the
places he visited in England and Scotland. "Perhaps
no people in the world," be concludes, "except my
own countrymen, are so kind and generous as the
denizens of England."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN JOCKEY.

Although a rumour prevailed on Friday afternoon
that Tom Ohsloner had died early that morn ng, this
well-known jockey and trainer did not expire until
one o'clock on Saturday. For many years the de-
ceased's name has been prominently before the public,
and as far back as the year 1863 he steered Macaroni
to victory in the Guineas and Derby, having in the
previous year won the Oaks with Feu de Joie, all
three victories being achieved in the colours of Mr.
R. C. Naylor. No less than 6ve St. Lagers were won,
by him with Caller Ou, Marquis, Achievement, For-
mosa, and Craig Millar. With Gang Forward he
secured the Two Thousand Guineas, and on Moslem
he rode a dead beat against Fordham and Formosa
in the Rowley Mile Race. Its also trained Scot
Free, who won the Two Thousand Guineas iii 1884.
Of late years Tom Cbaloner has acted as trainer, and
it Was at hia residencee.oaborne House,-Nswmarket,
that he expired.

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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

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itctil,l never get well, for I had attended St.
Mary's Hospital and Welbeck street Dispen-
sary, under Dr. Norman, Dr. Adam C'ark, Dr.
Allchin, Head Physician to Westminster Hos-
pital. and several eminent doctors. My suffer-
ing was simply horrible, and I have min: times
wished myself dead. After taking the mixture
fr:r ten days people that knew ma were se
tonithed a 6 my appearance. I have taken jri.i
two its bsttlea of /our Blood Mixtur', 51
Vie, av this wonderful cu-s.
*, '1: 'hat L-c-v-, la: to those sho .uTer •
t•-•• " —ll recommend itself.—l a-n, r ~• •
reepsettully,
"WILIAM( HAMM."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

1.; EATING'S POWDER
11._ • Kills Ees,, iAlivt Moths, Beetles

KEATING'S POWD2,II
Kil:s Fleas, Bugs, Moths, Beetles
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET

The total imports of foreign stock into London last o,e')
amounted to 10,151 head.. In the corresponding period
year we received 2094; in 1884, 1i523; in 18,43, 17,949 y
1682, 15,960 ; in 1881, 8981 ; and in 1830, 22,282 head. „0,
Liverpool were rece'.ved 237 beas's from
and r-0,) beasts from Poston, and at tFouthainPt'tje
14 beasts from Jersey and Guernsey. Tlio
trade has been. quiet; without sp cial feature. 1
were fair suppues of reitoc't offering. The neliveric'eP
home-aid beasts were about the average as reOfol,
numbers, but in quality and condition there was rooolie'
improvement. Transactions were nit characte'.,i''
by briskness, but the best breeds were sty°. 10
The cl oicest Scots and cross's realised 4s bd
9s 10d per 8110. Foreigin beasts ware ii moderwe iiV
and quiet request at about late commies. There
tolerably good show ,of sheep in the pens. 'the
was quiet but steady; choice 8 to 10 stone,Downs ti.„1,00
6s 6d to 6s Bd, ant II stone 6s 4d per 81b. Limbo
quoted at 78 6d to 8s per 8 lb. Ca ves and pigs were O'3o°
on former terms. The fo Bowing are the prices —C° lit'
and interior beasts, Is 2d to 3s 6d ; second qqi:lo,
ditto, 38 id to 48; prime large oxen, 4s 4d to 4s 6d.;
Scots, &c., 4s 8d to 4s 10d: coarse and inferior sheep, 4i°
to Is d ; second quality ditto, Is Od to 5s 6d ; prime 04460
woolled ditto, 68 2d to 6s 4d; prime Southdown ditto,
to 68 8d ; large coarse calves, Is 6cl to 4s 6{l ; prime
ditto, 4s Bd, to 58 Ocl ; large hogs, 2s 8d to 38 8,1 ; neat silio
porkers, 38 10d to 48 8d; lambs, 7s 6d to its per 8b to
the offal. Total supply—British Beasts, 2860 °. 1.
and lambs, 10,630; calres, 90; milch cows. 60. Foreld
Beasts, 490; calves, 30. From the Midland, Borne,
Western Counties we received 1130 beasts; from N0r,.00
Suffolk, and Essex, 1000; from Ireland, 100; and
Scotland, 140 beasts.

METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET.
iThe supply was rather larger, and the trade wa5,6,4,
at the following quotations, with a tendency to
rates, possibly all round, but mora decidedly for
Inferior beef, 2s 4d to 3s (Id ; middling ditto, 80 littol
Is lad; prime ditto. 4s Od to 4s 2d; Scotch
is (Id to 4s 2d; American, Liverpool killed, S scl,
•to 4s ; American-killed, hind quarters, 3s 4d to sopor
ditto killed forequarters, 2s 4d to 2s 6d. veal,
' lish, 49 (Id to 5s Od ditto Dutch. as 8d to 43 5c1,.4
tenor mutton. 2s 8d to 3s 8d; middling ditto, 40 vq,
is Id: prime ditto, 55 Od to 58 44; Scotch ditto,
j to 58 84; New Zealand ditto, 35 4d tq as 8d ; large ref
39 4d to Is 8d; small ditto, 4s 04 to 4s 4d per 81b. 1)1

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BILES BY AUCTION

HAGLEY STOCK SALE.
EVERY 310NDAY.
THE usual Supply of CAT !LE, SHEEP,
PIGS.
0 &TVS. PE ARENS, & WOOLDRIDGE

PUBLIC NOTICES.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

A WARNING TO LADIES:

*When a draper has not the "Nonparien" Velveteen in
tock, be is tempted to subsitute another and an interior
abrie rather than lose a customer. Insist upon seeing
le trade mark stamped at the back of each yard. The
Pl•tr quo._iits are equal in appearance and we: r better
inc veiy best Lyons Silk Velvet, and cost nly a
",,ter the price.
Can be purchased of all loading tetailers, in all
ualities—Blacks, from 2s to 6s per yard; Coloutc,
era 2s 6d to (is 6d per yard.
TOWLE'S PENNY:WI:AL AND STEEL I'ILLS
Olt FEMALES quickly correct all irregularities and
lieve the distressing symptoms s prevalent with the
- Ilexes is. led. and 2s 9d., of all CherniPts. Sent
qwhere on receipt of 15 or 84 stamps by t•le ruaaer
TONI LE, Chei.,.no,
• XIIIWAT AFFECTION 3 AND HOARBLNESS.-11.1 suf.
:ing front irritation of the throat hoar:ere:A
• 11 be agreeably ranrprised at the airiest irnrueiiiAte
'ief afforded by the c....5e of "Browns Bronchial
- • -oches." These famous " lozenges " are now sold by
- • iet reapectable cherniks in this Country at la.
,c LI. People troubled with a "backiLg coit!7b,'
• ht cold," or branchisl affevtleina, cannot try
. e'm allowed to 1, ro,
i.‘ iilo l'a:n-eLitary a:A Ast I.:matie aftec.
- Rte i the words "Brown Bronchial Troches"
Gs,veintrient Stamp around each
.oGx._
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- r-22104ed to 83, Farriugdon
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

THE QUEEN AND THE COLUMBINE
ADVENTURE.

The following letter has been received by Miss
Elizabeth Mouat: "Windsor Castle, March 27, 1886.
—The Queen has been much touched by the account
of the sufferings endured by Miss Mouat, and was
pleased to learn by her brother's letter of the 20th
inst. that she is recovering her strength. Her Majesty
has commanded Sir Henry Ponsonby to forward Mies
Mouat a cheque for £20."
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

THE STRIKES IN BELGIUM.

On Sunday there had been no extension of the
strike movement in Belgium, although many fac-
tories and works were still being guarded by troops.
At Decazeville, the state of things was reported to
have become more disquieting. Two socialist agi-
tators had been arrested at the scene of the strike by
the French Government.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

CO A

WHITFIELD'S SAFES.

FIRM AND TEIIEF RESISTING.
Through ny Ir. .nmon cer.

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poTA TOES at 31AIIKliT Pracrsl—Best Floury Mag-
i mons, 1121 b., 4s. 16511,.. fig. Sent 'On Itceipt o P.O to
c
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,
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S. S. Company's Mail Packets sail from Sotyrnatirroar every
alternate Thursday, and from Plymouth the following day, For
Pa,sace or Freight apply at the Compana Oft Ices, Oriental Placa.
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

HOURS OF MARRIAGE.

Lord Monk Bretton moved the second reading of the
Prlartiages (Hours of Solemnization) Bill. He said the
measure had passed the other House, and its object was
to extend the time for the solemnization of marriages
from noon to three in the afternoon.

After a short conversation, in which no opposition
was offe:ed to the bill, tho second reading was agreed
to.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

SHOCKING GUN ACCIDENT.

On Monday afternoon a shocking accident occurred
n East Dulwich, resulting from the incautious use of
'rearms. It appears that about half-past 12 Thomas
Edward Heather, aged 16, who resides with his
Arents at 26, Oglander-road, East Dulwich, was
laying with some companions in a street not far
'rom his home when one of them produced a cheap
Distol which he had bought from a pawnbroker near
;he Elephant and Castle the previous night. The
?istol, it is believed, must have been loaded when
sought, as its owner states he merely bought some
percussion caps to explode them for fun. The group
of companions having closed in gout& bira to sea
the cap placed upon the nipple, the boy Heather, not
liking to be in front of the pistol when it was pointed
at him, wheeled round, and received the full con-
tents of the pistol loaded with ball in his back,
where it lodged. The unfortunate youth was shortly
afterwards conveyed to t. Thomas's Hospital by his
father.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

•, THE DEATHS OF RICH -MEN • -

In the past year the richest American merchant,
H. B. Clafii ; the richest American railroad man,
W. H. Vanderbilt; and the richest American planter,
Edmund Richardson, have died. It is potable, says
an American contemporary, that not one of these
three died in his bed. One dropped dead at his desk,
another in his hall and the other in the street.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

THE MARKETS;

M ARK-LANE.
ge
At Mark-lane the business doing has not been
and ro p irticu'ar change has taken place in prices. „et 4
quantity of British wheat disposed of in the leading mar",Dii
of England aid Wales during the past 31 weeks a
season u ere 1,950,975 qrs., against 1,973 867 qrs. last st-a 5,
the average being 30s Ed against 32s 5d per qr. 'I he 8510'0
barley were 2,743,590 qrs., against 2,799,702 qrs.,
average of 23s 6d against 31s 8d ; and of oats 313 779 4061
against 347,843 qrs., the average being its 6d
19s 10d. English wheat was in fairly active dcmand,,,,,,t
red samples were 6d per qr. dearer. Fortran love
wse in moderate request at hardening prices. The
market was quiet at about late 'etas. In barley not ni:,ol
was doing, ',lit both malting and grinding produce,'?
steady in value. Oats m-t a quiet sate at steady Prleos,
For maize the demand was moderwe on former tor
Beans and peas were unaltered, with a quiet demand.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

Pills.—lndigestion ani Liver Complaints
—lbe digestion cannot be long or seriously disordered
without th 3 derangenomt being perceptitle on the
countenance. 'nese Pills provent both unpleasant con-
sequences ; they improve the appetite, and with the in-
crease of desrc for food, they f:ugnnent the powers of
digestion and assimilation in the stomach. Holloway's
Pill!, deal most satisfactorily with deranged or
,diseased
coneitions of Vie rrany organs engaged in extracting
nourishment for our bodies frt,m our various diets as
the livrr, stomach and bowels, over rli ef which they
cxcycise the most ralutory COT trol. By resolLng at so
e3.ly slag. 3 of this malady to °tics° purrlying and laxative
Pths, the dyspeptic is speedily rest,red to health and
straigth, nod his sallowness gradually vanishes,
" _LAUGH ON RATs.' —The Thing desired founi at
last. Ask chenists, grocers or oilmeu, for Rough
on Rats. it clears out rats, mice, beetles, roseher
flies, bedbugs, insects: ground moles, Sre. 7id.
is 1d boxf2e.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

EMPLOYERS' LIABILIT i•

The Select Committee of the House of Commons
on the Employers' Liability Act Amendment Bill met
on Tuesday, Sir T. Brassey in the chair. Mr. A. E.
Rnegg, author af a treatise upon the Employers'
Liability Act, was examined, and made numerous sug-
gestions for the alteration principally in the second
sub-section of the Act, where he would make not
only the employer liable by reason of negligence, but
would add the words, "or of any person in the ser-
vice of the employer." lie thought the clause under
which notice of an accident must be given to the
employer within six weeks should be dispensed with.
The Act had been unquestionably a substantial boon
to the working classes, and, upon the whole, it had
not operated unfairly in regard to the employer, nor
had it been proluctive of unnecessasy litigation. He
would not in all circumstances prevent the employer
from contracting himself out of the Act, but any such
contract should be subject to some kind of sanction,
say, by the Board of Trade or other offic:al depart-
ment. A well-devised scheme of insurance, contri-
buted to by employers and employed, was much
better for the workman than reliance upon the pro-
tection of the law.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-04-10

THE RATING OF THE METROPOLIS,

On Saturday was issued in the form of a Parlia-
mentary paper a return, with respect to each parish
in the metropolis, of the population in 1881, the
number of inhabited houses in 1881, the rateable value
according to the valuation lists in force on the 6th
day of April, 1884, and the several rates made by
the rating authority during the year ended the 25th
day of March, 1885. This return being in continua-
tion of the return No. 30, Session 1884, the same
method of arranging the parishes in the metropolis
has been adopted, and they are grouped as follows:
(1) Single parishes in schedule A to the Metropolis
Management Act, 1855, 18 and 19 Viet., cap. 120;
(2) parishes united into districts according to
schedule B to the same Act; (3) parishes in the City
of London Union; and (4) other parishes and places
in the metropolis not included in schedules A and B,
or in the City of London Union. In the parishes in
schedule A the highest rated parish was St. Luke,
Middlesex, where the rates amounted to Gs. 3d. in the
pound, and the lowest rated, St. James, Westmin-
ster, where the rates were 3s. 7d. in the pound. In
the parishes in schedule B the highest rated parish
was Putney, which had to pay Os. Bd. in the pound,
including 101 d. in the pound for the maintenance
and preservation of Wimbledon and Putney-com-
mons, and the lowest rated was St. Margaret and St.
John, Westminster, which paid only 3s. 100. in the
pound. In the City of London Union the highest
rated parish was St. Bartholomew-the-Great, where
the rates amounted to ss. Id. in the pound, and the
lowest rated parishes were St. Bartholomew-the-Less
and St. Gabriel, Fenchurch, where the rates amounted

in each case to 3s. 10Id. in the pound. The total
rates levied in the metropolis during the year
amounted to £7,104,129 on a total rateable value of
.E 28,980,4-9. The average rate in the pound on the
rateable -rst.lue was therefore 4s. 103,d.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

HAGLEY.

S'iOCK SALE. Messrs. Oates, Perrens, and
Wooldridge had a fair supply of sheep, lambs, and
pigs at their sale on Monday last, but a short supply
or beast. Best quality fat stock showed a slight
improment in price. Other classes remained
about the same as the previous Monday.
•
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

THE MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON

AT ALEXANDRIA.
ALEXANDRIA, August 9.

The Mediterranean Squadron, under die com-
mand of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh,
has arrived here. His Royal Highness, accompanied
by Prince George of Wales, went on board her Ma-
jesty's ironclad Orion, which was lying in the inner
harbour, where they were welcomed on behalf of the
Khedive by Tonino Bey, Master of the Ceremonies,
and by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Ahmed
Monkhtar Pasha, and the British and Egyptian
authorities. Their Royal Highnesses then visited
the Khedive, who returned the visit on board the
Orion. The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince George
afterwards landed with Sir D. H. Wolff, whose guests
they will be or some days at the Villa Antoniadis.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

HEAVY INTEREST FOR A LOAN.

Mr. Kekewich, Q.C., appeared before Mr. Justice
Bay on Monday on behalf of a gentleman named Mr.
Adams to restrain a company styling itself the
Southern Counties Deposit Bank (Limited), of East-
bourne, from dealing with a promissory note for
£450. The learned counsel said this bank was one of
those institutions that appear to lend money by adver-
tisement on "easy terms," the terms, however, not
being very easy to the burrower. In the present ease
Mr. Adams borrowed £3OO, for which he gave a pro-
missory note for £l5O and deposited valuable title
deeds. The first quarterly instalment of £22 10s.
was not paid, and the " bank " immediately com-
menced proceedi:gs in the Queen's Bench Division.—
Mr. Hastings, Q.C., appeared for the defendants, and
it was ultimately arranged that Mr. Adams should pay
£5OO into court, that the deeds and notes should be
returned to him, and an immediate account taken of
what is due to the defendant-ft.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

ONE HORSE bIATCHLESS TELZGRLMII

NO WIN NO PAY TERMS.

The success waich has attended our Morning Wires
ow the Course containing our

MATCHLESS ONE HORSE SELECTIONS
.wo races each day only has been astounding. Our
system is simply thus :—That for Five Telegrams you
remit us 24 6d, that is Sixpence to defray cost of mos-
soce and then you invest for us One Shilling on emit
hew we ~E,iirl. and you to remit us the rate of o his yen
•Ibto in ran idi y. Ilin4 if tb.. horse ( only one horse
each r,ce) •t .rt at evens ..nil it wins )ou se id to as One
iiilli.og ; :: at 2 to 1, you remit 2s, ; jet 3 to 1. MI
scud he. ; if at 10 to 1, 500 send** 104, and so on right
up 1., your iiunt. Thi4 is fair to both parties, we do
the vt, Tic avid dud out the good thing- aid yon only
invert tor us 18 along with your -t•ke, and when a
winim-r terutt us the tient day and so on. short reshot.
iLgi mere long frien.lB. Just try one week's wtms on
the Ni) WIN NO PAY SYSTEM, and yr.:a nt i never
regret. We have sll to lose and nothing to gain solo •
we send wiuners, and better the rice better 11011 Illa
' TooBe who p efer our Over-nigtt nelections by priwo
,11tter on the same terms by putting us is on each ram,
' uava ou yto send stinkpot addressed envelopes, no
imoney, to the Travellwg Correspondent, Sporting
Eissue Office, Mall. (haling Tategraiss, 'amalgams
elections for 6 raise b.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD IN

A CANOE;

Two years ago a man named Traynor started from
Bath, in the United States, with the intention of going
round the world in a canoe. As nothing has been
heard of him since he touched at a port of Newfound-
land, it is supposed that he has perished; but Dr.
Bibber, one of his friends, has just made arrangements
with a man named Chandler to repeat the experiment,
Dr. Bibber undertaking to supply a canoe 14 feet long.
Richard Chandler, who is 46 years of age and a native
of Northampton, Massachusetts, will first clogs the
Atlantic to Sweden and Norway, and thence make his
way along the coasts of Holland, Belgium, France,
and Spain to the Mediterranean, passing through the
Suez Canal into the Red Sea, and so by way of the
Indian Ocean and the South Pacific to Australia,
thence by way of China and Japan to San Francisco.
From San Francisco he will go by land to the
Mississippi, and descend that river to New Orleans,
completing his tour of the world by going up the
Atlantic coast to New York.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

A PEST TRAGEDY.

On Saturday, in a suburb of Pesti), a man who hale
been of weak mind for several weeks, suddenly went.
mad in the strees. He attacked a woman with his:
knife, and when, on her calling for help, several men
approached, his rather-in-law bin g among them, ha
ran his knife three times into the breast of the latter,
and injured the others severely. The woman waa
killed. Meanwhile more people came up and tried
to secure the madman. but witlykat !effect. At ILL.t
they beat him with cudgels until he was fairly ovtr.
Reero.

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'4 A • 4 ..`,l*. • LUJI 4.4•

a o THE WEARY

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a 'mu,' phyfti.e to the dor!.
rn none of it."—Shabeepeare.
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TRU El Do Read act's!

N° person need despair of a speedy restorAtion:to
health and strength if he or she uill carefully
pe, use the following, and learn that the great ,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

A PRETTY STORY ABOUT MISS
ELLEN TERRY.

At Mr. Irving's reception on Saturday night (writest
a London correspondent) there was an American
gentleman who figures in a very pretty story about
Miss Ellen Terry. One night in New York a little
deformed man came behind the scenes to present
Miss Terry with a tribute in the shape of a book.
This was a beautifully-bound volume containing
cleverly etched portraits of the actress, and a number
of passages from her various parts, finely engrossea.
The frontispiece represented four people sitting in
the front row of the gallery absorbed in the perform-
ance, and by these four people, two brothers, and a
sister of the little deformed man, the book had been
entirely manufactured. They were at the theatre every
night, and used to sit in the hest seats; but as the ex-
pense lecame serious they gradually went aloft, like
Tom Bowling, till they settled in the gallery, where-
they were to be found nightly with unfailing regularity.
When Miss Terry took the gift that was the
product of much loving care, she burst into tears, and
the little deformed man cried too, and went away
perfectly happy to fill the linrts of his three coin*
pinions as full as his own.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-08-14

CAPTURE OF COINERS.

Two men, who gave the name of Charles Johnson
and John Charles Johnson, father and son, were
brought before the Birmingham magistrates on Mon-
day charged with being in the possession of base coin
and apparatus for its manufacture. They were appre-
hended by the police on the previous day in a small
workshop in Wrentham-street. Suspicion had attached
to the elder prisoner for some time. He is said to be
well-known to the police, his real name being Charles
Tonks, and his age 62. For many years he has kept
the Alliance Hotel, Pershore-street. .He rented the
little workshop and also lived in a house in Wrentham-
street. When the police entered the place on Sunday
Tonks and his son were in the act of making base coin,
and on the elder prisoner were found 20 base florins
that had evidently just been taken from the electro-
plating bath, as they were yet white and unpolished.
Ihe room contained everything for carrying on the
making of base coin on a most extensive scale. The
electro-plating apparatus consisted of an acid battery,
the wires from which led into the silver bath, an
earthenware basin. The father said, when the charge
was read over to him, "I am not guilty of coining,
but only of plating them, and my son is innocent. It
was quite an accident that he came into the shop."
The son said a number of the bottles seized contained
stuff he used in his trade as a brassfounder. He did
brass work for outworkers in the shop sometimes.
They were remanded in the usual way for the Mint
authorities to be communicated with.