The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-06-15 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

IRON AND COAL TRADE.  WotvEttstasterow, Wednesday.—The attendance on 'Change this afternoon was itself sufficient indication of the state of trade. It was meagre in the extreme, and the amount of business transacted was almost sit. Ironmasters, in most instances. reported that their works, which had suspended operations for the Whitsuntide holidays, would be set on again to-night or to-morrow morning. There are instances, however, in which the mills and forges will remain idle until Thursday night, and in some few cases the week through. No itnprovement In trade is manifest so far as the number of orders just now coming in is concerned, but manufacturers speak more cheerfully of their prospects, as the result of the meeting of the EuropeanC,or peas, for the conviction h 3 increasing, that it cannot but come about that if peace is secured trade will revive.  Thursday—The business done at this days South Staffordshire iron trade meeting was very limited, but hopes are entertained that in the event of a peaceful termination of the Congress orders will come in more freely. Quotations remain unaltered upon the locos of XS 10s. per ton for best marked bars, but few transactions took place. The pig-iron trade was also quiet, all. tome hot air being £4 per ton, and cold air .£5. There is a good supply of coal in the district, and no change in prices.  AN AMERICAN EXECPTiON.—Ap,ording to Ameri. I can advii:es just received, a shocking scene was witmessed at the execution of a coloured man named Edward Webb, at Mansfield, Ohio. Webb was found guilty of the murder of an old man and sentenced to death. The neighbourhood of the execution was thronged with people long before the appointed time, and their behaviour was of the most riotous nature. There were a number of soldiers present, but the crowd, which numbered some 30.000 persons, did as they pleased. The culprit, during the lulls in the clemour, could be heard praying, when the mob would jeer and become very boisterous, demanding that Webb should be brought out so that they might " see him swing." Becoming impatient, they stormed the barricades en masse, pulled down the fences and scoffeld house, the scaffold alone remaining intact. To add to the confusion, the roof of a barn near the spot,which was covered with people, fell in, causing serious injury to many of its former occupants. The military had their bayonets ' drawn, but it was thought advisable not to u.e them. To the shouts of " Bring out your nigger and let him have a chance to swing,- the unfortunate man was brought on to the scaffold. While the pinioning operations were going on the crowd remained quiet, but shortly after the drop REA given they again indulged in the most unbecoming mar ner. The mob surging to and fro, people were freonently jostled against the COWER', , which was suspended by tha rope. Will great difh. catty. the corpse was cot down and buried, but it Moe expected that the unruly crowd would unearth it in the course of the night. WATSON'S TAPEWORM SPEcIFIC. -- From Mr. Orton, eliernist, Heinle i—" The bottle of specific' you sent me I gave to a customer of mine, who had been troubled with tapeworm many years. Having tried almost everything she heard tell of, she cause to me in despair last week. I am glad to ssy the following day she masa to telt me that lone 'needle had the desired Meet. The tapewovra di•ebarged amasser. yards loam, that I ens testify, she haring brought it to me.' Circulars poet free. Addresa—J. H.