The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-20 00:00:00

ANECDOTE OE TEE CROWN PRINCE.

itnisisli, writing to The Times on the 7th instant,
from Soultz le 3 Forms, asps :
...

" I have been the aceitient'al AA unseen 'a knees of a little
!scene Fist now whiteh is worth reconling. Ac• wry cart
was rumbling down the street with two wounded Oh
young men—on their way to the station. An officer info
beck ,ned to the driver to stop and went up to the cart, the
occupants of which tried to salute hint, hut lie made a ges-
ture, net leaning over entered into c.mveriation with them
for ten minutes, evidently asking after their wounds. Oa
parting he shook each by the hand and continued his way up
the sweet, accompanied by two other officers. Be halted at
in) imarters and inquired it there were any wounded in-
ante—thky hail been removed, some to their last ratting
pace—then went on, and mewing a cart fidi of wounded sol-
diers, talked to them esch in turn, and so went on visiting
the hospitals and the wounded in the most nneste ntatiou Mall-
nee It teas the Crown Prince. Is° wonder his men are fond
of him Many did not know him until he had pained on. He
told how the soldiers, one and all, seem to ref Ice in their
wounds, and make light of them for the sake of the cause, and
was an honest exult thou In his tone at the honour of com-
manding such troops.

THE PRUSSIANi AT NANCY.

The Paris Temps of Man,lay gives the following
account of the occupation of Nancy by the Prinunians
,

Yeater'ay, Friday, the 12-13 of August, at three o'clock le
the afternoon (melancholy date for us and our dercen lents)
four PI usslsn a ,Ittien to dr pots:eaten of the town of Nancy,
the ansi-nt capital of Larrame, and chief town of the depart-
ment of the Meurtim (Let us add at once for our credit tint
Nancy, an open town. had no Is tiger a single soldier, and that
In the interest of Me city the municipal authorities had
thought it desirable to recomote d celtutters.) Halt an hour
later a detachment of twentyalx Prussians traversed the town
and toot possession of the railway station, resting the
superintendent a prisoner oa parole The mayor Was re-
quired to present himself before the chief of the expedition
encamped between St. Max and the road to Essey. In the
meantime an officer of L'hlane, followed by two horsemen,
galloped round the town to reconnoitre. On the mayor's
retura the nomlclpal council had to vote for the cos-q aerers
alum of 60,000 franca and su, plies of oats. They ached no
less than 300,000 fumes, and considered 50,000 for • loan
blessed with such tine huildiogs a niece trifle For the short
vriod they have ben here the Poostans have lost no time.
At the station particularly twenty cit acne, uuder Prussian
direct to is, nero compulled to tear up the rails towards
hlaxessille, where the rails were thrown into the canal. The
telegraph posts have likewisy been pulled down. The Chiang
timbered ILO Two hotel, at Nancy, the St. George and the
Chartreuse, have been cello-red to tarnish dally dinner f.(r
aeventy-flve persons, llere is the m nu Soup,
Vegetables, a bottle of wine, and six igars icr maw" In
addition coffee hod been ordered for t lit morniog at four
otioCk, but at four o'clock all the Uhlana had disa2peered.