The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1865-01-07 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SAT (I RD.tY, J.ISIU VIII 7, JBl.  OURB RIDGE CoAt‘l IS ilONfili•;.  lad Mem —" Au,'' sai i li.',. y till'e, iny life's plavil out li:: '%''‘i•oril'il'YPlile:.3,l•lll:'.l:4 aistiit:l Titnt were two reasons %%by we expected a .goodly number of Commissioners woula I, in every other gamo better than I do -- rti; elso.•knit:t cil at ei ery move. "I his very morning in ro,11:1,i11.1:' attetirlanee at the montli'y meeting. last Monszetettsmelling yell-mouth by way or a treat f day. Everybody al oust deems It proper by the bedside of a departed year to resolve to „usi i nt"gZill,"tr),.ri iiir7,Tril"ilt,"lt.ramir'i ` tut it over a fresh leaf." tor in everything drops of perspirat ion 'is)suled 'in human there is always ' room to mend." And glittered like t 110 Ne of a lia,ilisk fa.s,inai. I gal ed hir breath, and clutched the fra._ra even ir the elai Ills of the Nr•w Year had not Indio toUurird it Itapipcti in a leaf 01 no lad 1.i.111. bees, acknowleged as an In-en! ive frr increasing ;ell. rwta:„V't!reialslt:„lnhie tilluev:1"1„iek""1:is„'t:-.,h' l'l li diligence, we should have thought that the lie lie critical position in whirl' !be finances of the l'"r him, and we " buried him iii dead t f to.til'lt""ntiltir. a tun n have le.en placed, would have induced a heartless trolorol,er a".l Isis ..P.rY were of 'l"i'm his death was a ease 01 felo de se although Isis 1,,a1y was large majority of those in power to have been rtoliteet-iipe.nittinet watersl tof lls ,le Park. The prci-eUt. Out of 54 peisons how many were Lill, Fuss' ititt'llterTtc;e".Z•it'e"s'''.:',.l°.m"° present ? We are asham. dto say. Not even erected by subscript l'Awt s'paltry half dozen ; only five : their names are panions was a poet of some eelelaity in Isis lime as Messrs. Wooldridge, Chance, Prescott, Ostins, far as ItNal eillisj.)lls Weld, and Ill' is 11‘)W a pauper in a " house" not 30 illileS removed from Stotabridge. and Undentood. Where the others were, am! Anroetclitteerdwolostel ew oirktsf have bert quotril in the pulpit what reason they bad for stopping away, we cannot tell. That they cannot be called to itc- the last time h 4.1. was ht.':atard'oal by rl‘t.isilfril.e'ttetres. 'it'll it't7:;llwl frightful wont except by conscienco, 'hey know as well poverty—his family star% ing and himself on a bed of as the ratepayers do. /hat the town should sickness with delirium tremeas, and other " Phases of every day life," might be given stillivient to sicken the be thus treated is by no means right. We reader, if the author had not already what he so earcommend the matter to the serious attention nestly desired, your sympathy with those unfortunate 01 the inhabitants. members of the English literati' who eontribu'e in no hut the live present were able to transact small degree to the riches of our glorious literature. the busine.ss, were they not ? Not they. An But to return to our prologue and re-commence the unprecedented obstacle stood in the way It's task.o r as .1 . .inetrinltiicttlihnit, although that is scarcely necesne?,: circle of acg:iiiiionntoimofat makingciirtoutiarsd. ebilt,ikeinroeutilr laughable but true ; they actually could not get a chairman. Mr. Wooldridge was pro object of the introduction is not to weary you with a lot of garrulous nonsense and stale anecdote, but to inposed and seconded, but declined on the plea form you that the title of the present tale does not that business would call him to leave before ow:re:lie. it to witillilsts:kseoft bre° arlealijeeraL buck t lowc; auta. 7 it ers timeof the meeting terminated. Mr. Chalice was proposel, but not seconded. Mr. Prescott was loyal ?istory some fifty years ago, and will comptise many instatice3 and perso.tal traits, who will be reproposed and seconded, but did not care to offi• membered by many persons living at the present time, elate for what reasen we are not told. Each io althoughuii,.o. ell,: pal,rioi?olnoirrtska.ratdoloar;aoliidtirs,.wioll !mail! many Of the others were proposed tut not seconded. bli/lisgoll°lo Ofeetltleo Mr. Wooldridge said the reporters might inform any one, amid especially the relatives the public that the town's business was So irn- actors in our forthcoming drama. Having thus far. trespassed on your indulgmee and good nature, we pot tent that no one cared to act. Mr. Chance will go no further, but trusting the newly dawned year thou man-of g'at they were all like the dog in the thet.s.62.l,d willthbote in ehoisf greatness to our country and fee, V:tio:dn't do the bus:nese themselves. nor . ntitairiabseeevleervated et any one else do it. Mr. Prescott said if to a higher degree of piYu(:faerctroann an any jobbery had to be done, there would be an viously tittained—ltat crime may decrease—that the abundince of members. At last Mr. Wool- working classes may get nearer to the completion of , till. political and religious rights, which commenced ridge took the chair, so that the meeting might wvoit 1 fMagnar‘odo iCohafrita,tand will culminate only in unihe adjotirned till Monday next. since we read commercial prosperity may shine the report we have strained our memory for a I. upon llSlthat ourirauleorsmmmearciar winello—re similar instance but in vain. We never re- 1 that our heroes may yet pyerfuoremwsolsemyetshtiung member any Commissioners cutting such a heroic in this great present than in the recorded past that peace may be restored to the disturbed nations of pititul figure, as did the five gentlemen whose ootrlifebeoatrth. 1 Chimerical though the vision may apsense of duty led them to the Board room on I aLprrleavnadil wwiittilii aalbol classes—that Monday Monday last. There was only one man in the apbundancegwMaywbilesms room willing to preside, and that was Mr vest, and that the blessing of heaven may t aril y rest on a Chance. Why he was not seconded is matter who deserve it. This is the invocation and bring us to of surprise to everybody. Why Messrs. Piesthe prelude of our tale. cott, Ostins, and Underwood, refused to second ' Mr Wooldridge's proposition,is best known to themselves, and where " ig,norance is bliss 'tie ; c4sc:Ont lab District 46).5 . ...), .. folly to be wise " The town's affairs are in a ‘ _ financially critical position: Mr, l'arkes's ac-